Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-13

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/ administered - Oafh 10 pcteFsoa aad oNUTe
him 70 - paper. Ths eeatsnts Of ~ adkds-
~ wers tAiksd ever sad slscn1sed nssors ne
house about ten minutes after he signed the
aARdAyik / heard 3 convefsation between Pet
erson and Stanley shout . statement which
the former said he bad made to Geo W. Kel-
lOgg, q Norfolk, Net.
A d. Tollefson: I live IN Sioux City and
He came into my oAscs about November 5 last
He then told No that Ut the time the shot vas
fred that killed Haddock, no (Peterson1 was
standing right on the corner BY the cornice
shop.
the morning, instead Of 0:S9, - usual
SIXTEENTH DAY.
Court again reconvened and +. A. Almon
was called 10 the stand and testified y fol-
live in Sioux City and have for three
years am . baker by trade. In August
1885, I was living on Water street. I am IA
miliar with the Lone Star restaurant l
boarded there last summer. Tho entrance u
. double door which opens inwardly. In Au-
gust thsre were screen doors which swing out
wardly. The main door was about seven
inches from the outward verge of the sill. The
screen doors we're aboutt three inches from the
outward verge Of the sill The right hand
door OF tho screen was the only ona that
swung ut that time. There was no shelter At
al in that door at that time. The upper part
Of the ransom was shout even with the door.
There was no overhanging projection at all.
]. 8 Browning, t~estifies: live In Sioux
City and have for four years. am connected
with the Journal. had an interview with
Paul Leader on January s last In that con-
ing Of the murder Of Haddock he became ac-
quainted with the news that certain parties
Intended to whip Haddock. He said 80 In sub
stance. He said that whcn he reached the
Dineen corner he found q crowd Of ten or
twelve standing there. He ,ad that he and
his companion edged their way around the
crowd and passed on to Water street H said
that he did not r cogn!ze the man who fired
the shot sufficiently to tell who he was. /
can't t~ecollect that Leader made any mention
Of the man wearing a rubber coat. There
was nothing said about a rubber coat. He
said that he understood that night thai the in
Leader said that he and his companion learned
that Haddock was to be whipped and they
watched the prosecuting from an Independents
position OF their own.
q. II. jackson, recalled, testi6os that it is .
current report in the community ct Lake Gen-
" tloS bCuIuAAt 8ttCuAPbC0 w oCn y
of his daughter for . small sum Of money, and
for that and other abominatlons he was run
out Of that community. .
James STANLEY t~estifes: am city marshal
Of Sioux City. I have been here eighteen
years. know the man Juhl, alias
on the I'd Of November last
He told me that at the time the shot was fired
he was standing in tho doorway Of . grocery
store betwe n Pearl and Water streets. on
Fourth street He raid that he stood there
IN order to get ont Of the rain He said that
he was standing there while the buggy passed
by and that he staid there ten minutes; that
five or six mon passed by him going west
towards the Columbia House; that he recog-
nized one Of the men who passed by him "a 4
man whom he had seen Ut the brewery three
years before; that he had drank beer with him
ct the brewery aad knew him WE'LL. that the
man was a large, heavy man with a hight
moustache. l talked with Juhl in Murphy's
Office ON November 4. was with Juhl there
twice. Stanley further ~testities that Juhl
could not point out the spot where Haddock
Was shot; that Juhi signed and swore TO the
affidavit mentioned in Justice Foiey's evidence.
7. T. Murphy testifies: l saw Jull at my
Office on December T. He was there twice.
In the afternoon Stanley and Grimm were
there with him. Grimm was there to take
shorthand notes. Juhl said then that at the
time the shot was fired he was standing in the
doorway Of a grocery store.
p. II. Grimm ties lies: ] am a member Of
the bar and nave resided in Sioux City a year
and Q half. l know Murphy, Llty Marshal
Stanley, and Juhl, the witness. In November,
1886, l saw Juhl in Murphy's Office and heard
. conversation there / heard Juhl say at the
time the shot was fired he Was standing by
grocery store on Fourth Q rect. Juhl said he
He said there was q policeman there when he
reached the body. Juhi said that when he
got there the people were saving that it wa
Haddock who was killed. He said that he
hurried, after the shot, and got to the body in
few minuteA
James Melon t~estiies: am Chief OF Pc,
lice, and have lived in Sioux City seventeen
years. / first saw JuhI on December 4 last
/ went with Juhl and Jack Ryan that day 10
the corner of Water and Fourth streets. Juhl
pointed out at that t me ~ the place where
Haddock fell, . spot about midway on the
crossing Of Fourth street, north Of the Din
cen corner. When Juhl was shown a spot be-
tween the Dineen and Columbia HOUSE cor
ners, on Water street, and a. ked il that WASN'T
the place where Haddock was shot and fell, he
said it was not Juhl also that day said he
was standing in the doorway Of a seed store
on Fourth street. That doorway 10 east of the
alley on Fourth between Pearl and Water
streets on the north side. From that doorway
. person could not see Merrilis livery stable.
A little while after Juhl showed me that door
way as the place where re stood on that night,
he tool me west 10 the Lone Star restaurant
and said he was standing in the doorway OF
the restaurant when the shot was fired. ! was
at police headquarters when the shot was fred,
and about five minutes later ! went down on
the street. l saw no one standing near Lerch'a
saloon or about there.
John l. Ryan ~testifes that there is n
threshold projection on tho outside Of the
screen on which anybody could stand and that
the screens open ~outwardly; that Juhl pointed
out as the place where Haddock was shot a
spot about midway on Fourth street, north OF
the Dineen corner.
A. Mckenzie, recalled t~eetifles: After the
shot was fred l went out of police head
quarters Immediately after Melon went out on
the street and stood in front of Lerch's saloon.
There was no one in front Of the saloon
went inside and there was no one there but
Lerch and his bartender.
John Woodruff t~estifies: l was living last
August on West Third and Kansas streets.
Ny house was the third house on the street be-
yond the brewery. BY entering the east door
OF the brewery one can pass ont through the
engine house. The night Of tho murder I was
sitting Of . porch on the east side Of my house.
I could see right down TO the railroad track
and 10 the brewery yard on the west side Of
the brewery. The electric light was BURNING.
That night / heard the shot fred while | Wal
on the porch. A short lime after the shot was
fired I saw two mon running. The two men
came out from the brewery somewhere and
ran down the track to the large house standing
there. They crossed the street and tried tC
get into the door of Strohmeier's boarding
house but couldn't do II. Tn electric lighl
was burning brightly. One man was . heavy
set man. The other was tall and more slen.
der. The shorter man was ahead. The short
or man came back afior going o the
house, and then turned east on the street
did mot rec the other man after he went around
to the rear OF Strohmeier,s boarding house
II stands Just west Of Ressegieu's liquor store
and 10 almost opposite the brewery.
". ~. lngledue: ! know Arensdorf b.
sight knew Henry Peters In August las
Petors boarded II Strohmeier's house. Tha
house was on West Third street, just west o.
Ressogiou's liquor store.
Hero the state announced that it rested III
case and altar 4 few unimportant witnessed
were offered by the defense 10 sur-rebuttal, i
also rested its case.
Tho court: II suppose, gentlemen, tina
You will want to argue the legal questions be-
fore summing up TO the jury"
II WAS thereupon agreed that on Monday
before the final adore secs to the jury. tn
legal questions should be argued, after which
the summing up should occur.
After cautioning the jury that the case wal
not yet legally in their hands, aud that opin
ions should not yet be expressed or formed